I once believed that a friend is a friend "all the way". Now I have changed my ideas about friendships.
1. Friends of convenience. They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children"s
closest friends. Friends of convenience (便利) are convenient indeed. They"ll help us when we need them.
They"ll look after our cats when we go on holiday. But we don"t ever get too close or tell too much. We keep
our public face and emotional distance, which means that we"ll talk about being overweight but not about
being sad or disappointed. However, people still feel these friendships valuable to them.
2. Special-interest friends. These friendships aren"t deeply personal or emotional. Their value lies in some
shared interest, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.
3. Historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when… maybe we were back in the second
grade of primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown. He or she was the first,
the only friend we told our secrets to. The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. We have
little in common now, but we"re still a personal part of each other"s past. We know how we looked before
our teeth were straightened, and our getting together reminds us of an earlier part of ourselves, which is
important and never lost.
4. Cross-generational friends. These are friendships that form across generations (代). I have in my own
life a precious (珍贵的) friend, a woman of 65, who is wise, who listens well, and who represents not only
an ideal mother to me but also the person I"d like to be when I grow up. Best friends, I believe, totally love,
support and trust each other. |
| Types of friends | Description of friends | | Friends of convenience | They can be the 1_______ or the mothers of our children"s
closest friends. They can 2_______ us when we are in need.
Though we don"t walk about emotional topics, this doesn"t
mean that there isn"t any 3_______ to be found in these
friendships. | | Special-interest friends | We usually 4_______ some interests with our special-interest
friends, so we may have an 5_______ friend, a tennis friend,
or even a shopping friend. | | 6_______ friends | This kind of friendship was usually formed when we were
children, so we know how we 7_______ before our teeth were
straightened. Although we have little in common now, our
getting together can 8_______ us of each other"s happy old days. | | Cross-generational friends | Cross-generational friends usually aren"t from the 9_______
generation. A friend like this may 10_______ an ideal mother
or the person I want to be when I grow up. | | 选词填空。 | | visit, list, much, to, lie, as, interest, friend, by, be | | 阅读理解。 | Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station. Each time when
Spring Festival comes, buying tickets of train trip would be very hard. And things seem to be getting worse
and worse, although we have greatly increased the mileage of railway network and speeded up trains. Why?
It"s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family. Many people
become angry with the Ministry (部) of Railways.
They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station (火车站) Instead,
they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers (票贩) at much higher price.
The Ministry of Railways estimated (估计) that about 188 million passengers would travel by train during
the 40-day peak (高峰) period surrounding the 2009 Spring Festival holiday. The number of travelers will be
8％ higher than that of 2008. This problem even drew the President Hu Jintao"s attention. He wrote a note to
Liu Zhijun,Minister of the Ministry of Railways, asking him to take action to improve passenger convenience.
Afterward, officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers
spend Spring Festival at the railway station. | 1. Many people can"t buy the tickets from the railway station, and they sometimes can only buy them
from the scalpers ________. | A. expensively
B. happily
C. dangerously
D. hardly | | 2. How many people took the train trip during the peak period surrounding the 2008 Spring Festival holiday? | A. About 203 million.
B. About 188 million.
C. About 180 million.
D. About 174 million. | | 3. What does the passage mainly tell us? | A. People go home much more easily during the Spring Festival.
B. It is very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival.
C. President Hu Jintao cares about the railway building problem.
D. The Ministry of Railways felt sorry about the problem. | | 完形填空。 | The United States is full of automobiles (机动车). There are still many families without cars. But some
families have two or 1 more cars. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a 2 part of life.
Cars are used for 3 . They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to 4
their jobs. When salesmen are sent to 5 parts of the city, they have to drive in order to 6 their products.
Farmers have to drive into the city in order to shop for necessities.
Sometimes, small children must be driven to 7 . In some cities, school buses are used only when children
8 more than a mile from the school. When the children are too 9 to walk that far, their parents take 10
driving them to school. One 11 drives on Mondays, taking her children and the neighbors" children as well.
Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesdays and so on. This is 12 forming a car pool (拼车).
Working people also form car pools, with three or four people taking turns driving to the place 13 they work.
More car pools should be formed in order to put 14 cars on the road and to use less oil. 15 is a great
problem, and so is the traffic in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something should be done
about the use of cars. | ( )1. A. even
( )2. A. great
( )3. A. families
( )4. A. get to
( )5. A. same
( )6. A. catch
( )7. A. cities
( )8. A. move
( )9. A. small
( )10. A. money
( )11. A. parent
( )12. A. call
( )13. A. where
( )14. A. more
( )15. A. Driving | B. much
B. necessary
B. business
B. look for
B. different
B. create
B. schools
B. study
B. big
B. time
B. child
B. calling
B. that
B. fewer
B. Running | C. little
C. proper
C. education
C. find out
C. every
C. cover
C. parks
C. live
C. young
C. pride
C. way
C. to call
C. which
C. many
C. Parking | D. such
D. possible
D. farms
D. use up
D. each
D. carry
D. gardens
D. work
D. old
D. turns
D. car
D. called
D. when
D. less
D. Forming | | 阅读理解。 | When I was 13 years old, I became a vegetarian and quickly realized that I would have to learn how
to cook for myself. The first thing I ever asked my mom to teach me how to make was bean soup."Oh,
that"s easy!" She told me. She started by explaining: "Almost every soup starts with onions and carrots."
My mom is a chef who is able to cook delicious meals. She also told me that the very first thing she
had learned in cooking school was to make soup stock (拼盘)----followed by soup. Her teacher had told
the class: "If you learn anything here, it should be soup."
In the US, soup isn"t so much a part of a meal as a meal in itself. Soups are often made from the
leftovers (剩菜) of last night"s dinner----a baked chicken or turkey can easily be made into a new meal by
adding broth (肉汤) and some vegetables. Soups are accompanied (伴随) by bread and topped with cheese.
It was easy to impress my college roommates with my mom"s great soup recipes (菜谱). Bean soup,
vegetable noodle soup, mushroom soup… For only a few dollars, three or four of us could eat well from
the same pot of soup for a whole week. Add a loaf of bread and some cheese, and our soup became a proper
feast (盛宴).
I"m not a vegetarian any more, but I still make bean soup. It fills the house with lovely smells and reminds
me of my mom, and my home. | | 1. The first thing that the writer learnt to make was _______. | A. bean soup
B. vegetable noodle soup
C. mushroom soup
D. beef soup | | 2. What is the writer"s mother"s job? | A. teacher
B. officer
C. chef
D. secretary | | 3. According to the writer"s mother, almost every soup has _______. | A. onions and carrots
B. celery (芹菜) and chili (辣椒)
C. carrots and mushroom
D. bread and cheese | | 4. Which of the statements is TRUE? | A. Soup is as important as a meal in America.
B. Americans don"t like to make soup from leftovers.
C. Americans think it is difficult to make soup.
D. Americans like to add cheese to soup. | | 5. From this passage, we can learn that _______. | A. in the US, soup isn"t part of every meal
B. you can"t make soup with a baked chicken or turkey
C. the writer often made different kinds of soup at home with her roommates
D. the writer doesn"t make bean soup any more because she isn"t a vegetarian | |
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